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Masonic

Definitions: Masonic

Masonic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to stonemasons or masonry; "masonic tools".

2. Of or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry; "Masonic lodge".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "masonic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Crosswords: Masonic

English words defined with "masonic": Knight Templar. (references)
Specialty definitions using "masonic": Death and Doctor Hornbook. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Masonic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (masonic).

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Commercial Usage: Masonic

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Masonic Compendium to the Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East (1918) (reference)

  • Egyptian Masonic History of the Original and Unabridged Ancient and Ninety-Six - 96 - Rite of Memphis (reference)

  • Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrated (reference)

  • Masonic Initiation (reference)

  • Masonry of Adoption: Masonic Rituals for Women Complete With the Verbatim Degree Lectures and the 'Secret Work' (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Inspector Morse - Masonic Mysteries (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Masonic

Photos:
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Photo Album: Masonic

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Architectural drawing for a fraternal lodge ("Proposed Masonic Temple"), Connecticut Avenue and Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Bird's eye perspective.Credit: Library of Congress.

Parsons, Kansas: Masonic Temple.Credit: Library of Congress.

Masons around rostrum at George Washington memorial service, and cornerstone-laying ceremony, at the Masonic Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia] / Underwood & Underwood, Inc., Washington.Credit: Library of Congress.

Atlanta, Ga. Railroad depot and yard; Trout House and Masonic Hall in background.Credit: Library of Congress.

Unidentified man, about 60 years of age, in Masonic regalia, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left, seated at table with tablecloth.Credit: Library of Congress.

Laying the cornerstone of the new Masonic temple, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress.

Masonic home, Manchester, N.H.Credit: Library of Congress.

Masonic headquarters in Worthington, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress.

Post office, Masonic temple and drug store. Virginia City, Montana.Credit: Library of Congress.

Masonic Temple. Exterior of Masonic Temple.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Masonic

"Masonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Masonic" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%9334,067

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Masonic

Expressions using "masonic": masonic lodge Masonic systems. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "masonic": anti-masonic.

Containing "masonic": Anti-Masonic Party.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Masonic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  masonic

665

  center illinois masonic medical

32

  masonic lodge

288

  history masonic

28

  masonic ring

202

  masonic sword

28

  masonic jewelry

165

  masonic graphic

28

  masonic temple

143

  masonic and apron

27

  masonic symbol

126

  detroit masonic temple

25

  masonic ritual

101

  masonic degree

22

  masonic supply

81

  masonic picture

22

  hospital illinois masonic

79

  masonic watch

21

  masonic clip art

73

  clothing masonic

20

  masonic order

65

  masonic bible

20

  masonic clipart

60

  masonic emblem

20

  masonic emblems

59

  masonic gift

19

  masonic secret

58

  education masonic

18

  masonic home

50

  masonic apparel

18

  masonic regalia

49

  masonic auditorium

17

  illinois masonic

41

  masonic shirt

17

  art masonic

40

  masonic screensaver

16

  masonic pin

39

  masonic store

14

  masonic book

37

  lodge masonic texas

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Masonic

Language Translations for "masonic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

masoni. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ماسوني (freemason, mason). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

масонски. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zednářský. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vrijmetselaars‐, vrýmetselaars-. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

framasona. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

وابسته به فراماسون . (various references)

   

French

  

maçonnique. (various references)

   

German

  

freimaurerisch (freemasonic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μασονικόσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

של "בו ים "חפשיים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szabadkõmûves (freemason). (various references)

   

Italian

  

massonico. (various references)

   

Manx

  

masoonagh (Freemason, mason). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asonicmay

   

Portuguese

  

maçônico (masonry), pote de conserva. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

masonic, francmasonic. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

масонский. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

masonski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

masónico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

frimurar-. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกี่ยวกับช่างก่อหินหรืออิฐ, เกี่ยวกับองค์กรลับระหว่างประเทศที่ช่วยเหลือกัน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

masonluğa ait. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

масонський. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Masonic

Misspellings

"Masonic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Manolic, Marongiu, Marsonair, Masani, Mashona, Maslonikov, masoned, masonics, Massoni, Masuno, Mavonia, Mazowia, Mazzone, Mazzoni, Miconia, miskovic, Misonne, Missoni, Mosconi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Masonic"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "masonic" (pronounced musÄ"nik)
6-u s Ä" n i kultrasonic.
5-s Ä" n i khypersonic, sonic, supersonic.
4-Ä" n i kallophonic, avionic, bubonic, catatonic, chronic, conic, demonic, diatonic, electronic, embryonic, ganglionic, gnomonic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypertonic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, laconic, leptonic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monophonic, nucleonic, ovonic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, sardonic, symphonic, synchronic, tectonic, telephonic, tonic.
3-n i karsenic, beatnik, botanic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, clinic, cynic, Dominick, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, germanic, hallucinogenic, inorganic, kibbutznik, manic, mechanic, messianic, monoclinic, multiethnic, neotenic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, panic, pathogenic, photogenic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, satanic, scenic, schizophrenic, splenic, Sputnik, technic, telegenic, Titanic, transgenic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, volcanic.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Masonic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: anosmic, camions, maniocs.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-s"

-1 letter: amnios, anomic, camion, casino, macons, manics, manioc, mascon, mosaic, socman.

-2 letters: amino, amins, amnic, amnio, cains, canso, cions, coins, comas, icons, macon, mains, manic, manos, mason, micas, minas, moans, monas, nomas, osmic, scion, sonic.

-3 letters: aims, ains, amin, amis, anis, asci, cain, cams, cans, ciao, cion, coin, coma, coni, cons, icon, ions, macs.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: campions, coamings, laconism, limacons, maniocas, minorcas, moccasin, monacids, monastic, simoniac.

 

+2 letters: aconitums, acromions, ammoniacs, armonicas, campesino, champions, cinnamons, coinmates, comedians, companies, complains, coumarins, demoniacs, encomiast, harmonics, insomniac, laconisms, macaronis, macintosh, mandiocas, marocains, moccasins, monachism, monastics, monoacids, monobasic, omniarchs, onomastic, romantics, simoniacs, volcanism.

 

+3 letters: acrimonies, actomyosin, ascogonium, astronomic, cairngorms, calumnious, campesinos, carcinomas, chamoising, chromatins, coassuming, cobalamins, companions, comparison, compassing, compassion, complaints, cremations, dominances, dormancies, egomaniacs, encomiasts, geomancies, harmonicas, iconoclasm, impactions, insomniacs, macaronics, macaronies, macedoines, mackintosh, magnificos, manticores, maraschino, mastodonic, mendacious, miscaption, monachisms, monarchies, monarchism, monarchist, monochasia, mordancies, morticians, mosaicking, nomarchies, nonmusical, normalcies, nosocomial, onomastics, organicism, organismic, sanctimony, scammonies, simoniacal, stomaching, volcanisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Masonic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 73 6F 6E 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    ...    ---    -.    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0073 006F 006E 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47678581807569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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